Seth Jennings
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Jennings is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with 12+ years building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure, primarily at Red Hat. He combines deep expertise in Kubernetes/OpenShift with hands-on work across installer, hypershift, console, and core Kubernetes repos—shaping deployment, CI/CD and operator behavior for large-scale clusters. His contributions span full stack concerns from live kernel patching and ELF differencing to Prometheus queries and UI metrics, showing fluency across backend, DevOps, and frontend. Seth has repeatedly improved reliability and automation in production tooling—fixing race conditions, refining kubelet behavior, and streamlining build/dependency flows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic infrastructure fixes that bridge developer ergonomics and cloud provider integrations, including nuanced AWS IAM and subnet filter support. He pairs platform-level impact with a long track record of subtle, high-leverage changes that reduce operational toil.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (56)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/hypershift
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Hyperscale OpenShift - clusters with hosted control planes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:422 reviews, 247 commits, 519 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Seth's contributions primarily involve enhancing the functionality of the `openshift/hypershift` repository, which includes modifications to infrastructure configuration. They have worked on enabling override options for subnet filters within the operator and updating the help output for the CLI. The user also added support for status conditions, including code changes to the hosted control plane and various manifest configurations, and worked on features such as the management of DNS records. Additionally, the user has modified the AWS IAM roles and improved the support for the AWS infrastructure, demonstrating a combination of backend development and infrastructure configuration skills.
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google/cadvisor
Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
Analyzes resource usage and performance characteristics of running containers.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 40 PRs, 96 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the build and deployment aspects of the project. They fixed build issues related to specific operating systems and Go versions. Furthermore, the user integrated log file tailing and logrotate support, indicating work on improving the project's operational capabilities. The user also made adjustments to the build process with the addition of a netgo tag and addressed an issue in the OOM monitoring.
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